Agilent Technologies 5975C TAD VL MSD, Troubleshooting And Maintenance Manual

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Filament care
Like the filaments in incandescent light bulbs, the ion source filaments will
eventually burn out. Certain practices will reduce the chance of early failure:
•
If you have an optional G3397A Micro-Ion vacuum gauge, use it to verify
that the system has an adequate vacuum before turning on the analyzer,
especially after any maintenance was performed.
•
If you are controlling your MSD from the Edit Parameters screen, always
select MSOff before changing any of the filament parameters.
•
When setting up data acquisition parameters, set the solvent delay so that
the analyzer will
not
turn on while the solvent peak is eluting.
•
When the software prompts Override solvent delay? at the beginning of a
run,
always
select NO.
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Higher emission current will reduce filament life.
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Higher electron energy will reduce filament life.
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Leaving the filament on for short times (

1 minute) during data acquisition
will reduce filament life.